18:031:016 If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail; 18:031:017 Or have eaten my morsel myself alone, and the fatherless hath not eaten thereof; 18:031:018 (For from my youth he was brought up with me, as with a father, and I have guided her from my mother's womb;) 18:031:019 If I have seen any perish for want of clothing, or any poor without covering; 18:031:020 If his loins have not blessed me, and if he were not warmed with the fleece of my sheep; 18:031:021 If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, when I saw my help in the gate: 18:031:022 Then let mine arm fall from my shoulder blade, and mine arm be broken from the bone. 18:031:023 For destruction from God was a terror to me, and by reason of his highness I could not endure. 18:031:024 If I have made gold my hope, or have said to the fine gold, Thou art my confidence; 18:031:025 If I rejoice because my wealth was great, and because mine hand had gotten much; 18:031:026 If I beheld the sun when it shined, or the moon walking in brightness; 18:031:027 And my heart hath been secretly enticed, or my mouth hath kissed my hand: 18:031:028 This also were an iniquity to be punished by the judge: for I should have denied the God that is above. 18:031:029 If I rejoice at the destruction of him that hated me, or lifted up myself when evil found him: 18:031:030 Neither have I suffered my mouth to sin by wishing a curse to his soul. 18:031:031 If the men of my tabernacle said not, Oh that we had of his flesh! we cannot be satisfied. 18:031:032 The stranger did not lodge in the street: but I opened my doors to the traveller. 18:031:033 If I covered my transgressions as Adam, by hiding mine iniquity in my bosom: 18:031:034 Did I fear a great multitude, or did the contempt of families terrify me, that I kept silence, and went not out of the door? 18:031:035 Oh that one would hear me! behold, my desire is, that the Almighty would answer me, and that mine adversary had written a book. 18:031:036 Surely I would take it upon my shoulder, and bind it as a crown to me. 18:031:037 I would declare unto him the number of my steps; as a prince would I go near unto him. 18:031:038 If my land cry against me, or that the furrows likewise thereof complain; 18:031:039 If I have eaten the fruits thereof without money, or have caused the owners thereof to lose their life: 18:031:040 Let thistles grow instead of wheat, and cockle instead of barley. The words of Job are ended. 18:032:001 So these three men ceased to answer Job, because he was righteous in his own eyes.